Sorry to hear that mate. Related to the One Tel collapse?<br>Anyhow it is one way to turn the weekend into shyte<br>I am sure though that being young and talented that you will soon find work again.<br><br>..

Damn Alex... that really sucks.... I wish you the best, and please take Stan up on his offer....<br><br>Best of luck.<br><br>John<br><br>***<br>"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." <br> -- Ecclesiastes 10:2

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#983 - 06/02/0102:45 AMRe: So long, and thanks for all the...
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Volatile indeed, but if you're talented, your efforts will be appreciated--both by your employer(s) and surfers alike. <br><br>Web designers may be in abundance right now, but good ones certainly are not. At least half the sites I visit daily are a testament to this.<br><br>Best of luck!<br><br>

No loyalty any more. Employers expect it from their employees, of course. Moan about the lack of it in the media every once in a while. During the eighties there was great hand-wringing over how Japanese companies got fanatical loyalty from their work force.<br><br>Overlooked, of course, was the fact that the companies gave benefits in return: great medical care, free, or nearly free housing and few layoffs, even when times were difficult. Well things have changed in Japan.<br><br>And things have changed here too. Employer loyalty just doesn't exist. People get pushed out the door with little or no notice. Sometimes they are even "encouraged" to resign so that termination pay doesn't have to be given.<br><br>But when times are better, and these vultures start to hire again, they'll wonder why turnover is so high, or why they can't hire the people they want at all.<br><br>John<br><br>

John,<br><br>I think it's all up to the employer. My new employer seems to be very loyal to his employees, and my wife's company boasts a less than 5% turn over rate.... <br><br>I really think it's all up to the employer... and whether or not they care more about money, or culture/environment (and then again, some of them have to care about the shareholders)....<br><br>john<br><br>***<br>"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left." <br> -- Ecclesiastes 10:2

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"In the old days, you'd finish a day's work and announce, 'I'm done.' Nobody ever does that now. There's never enough time." -- Elliott Masie

My only regular job was working in the audio visual department of a community college. I got involved with the union (against my better judgement) and found out a dirty little secret of the place: there was over a 40% turnover in staff per year. Those 40 percent tended to be the most competent, who were unhappy with the lack of advancement, low pay, and most of all, incredible level of day-to-day politicking.<br><br>I believed, and in the four years I spent there I believe I saw, that the turnover rate would slowly diminish as the competent people left and incompetent seat warmers managed to luck in. The slackers and incompetents, of course would not want to leave, in view of their limited ability to find better employment, so as the better people opted out, people of, um, limited skills and work ethic came to fill most of the seats.<br><br>I left years before budget cuts chopped many of these people away from their gravy trains, much to their surprise and dismay. No loyalty there, even to the boobs this particular institution seemed to prefer to hire.<br><br>(I must admit here that in any situation like this, there will always be some who make an effort; these poor folks do the majority of real work and tend to get chopped when the going gets tough regardless of ability.)<br><br>John<br><br>

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